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The Palomino Golden Bear is a wooden pencil available in HB/#2 with blue or orange barrels. A dozen will cost you about $3. The barrel is a sharpish hexagonal cross section and I find it a little uncomfortable to hold. I realise though that I’m a bit of a wimp whe it comes to holding…
Here’s what I carry with me in my pockets wherever I go, so I can take any opportunity there is to draw. It’s a Calepino notebook in a Davis Leatherworks cover, with a Kaweco Liliput (filled with Pilot Iroshizuku Kiri-Same) and a Kaweco Brass Sketch Up clutch pencil. The notebook suits me because it handles…
The Kaweco Sketch Up line is a range of clutch pencils available in a variety of finishes, mostly taking 5.6mm lead. (Some take 2mm lead.) There are two kinds, one with a grip section (costing around £30 in the UK) and one without (costing about £27). Here I’m reviewing an aluminium pencil with a grip…
The Caran d’Ache Swiss Wood pencil is available just in HB. It’s quite expensive, for a pencil: £3.50 in the UK, $4.50 in the USA. That’s each. According to CW Pencils, the Swiss Wood is made from wood. From Switzerland. More specifically, dark beech wood from the Swiss Jura. This is such a beautiful part…
The Midori CL pencil is a plastic bodied mechanical pencil that costs about £2.50 in the UK. It’s available in 0.3mm and 0.5mm versions and in blue, white and pink. It’s simply styled, with minimal branding. It looks quite 60s to me. I don’t like it as much in person as I thought I would…